I SENT THIS PHONE FLYING OUT THE WINDOW! And here's why. Forget about texting on this phone, in case u are somehow immune to high blood pressure. Interface, menu organization, and personalized profile settings are seriously lacking. If you'd like to spend 3 years going through menus just to save you work hours then this is the ideal phone for you. Maybe I haven't figured out the appropriate shortcuts, but then again, maybe they DON'T EXIST! All in all, this phone was designed by a complete windbag desperate to impress corporates with money in their pockets, but no sense upstairs. Oh wait...there is 1 good thing...the battery will last you the 3 years you need to run through the menus to complete the most simple task. I charge it once every 2 weeks.

Been using this for a little over a year now. Battery life is good and can last me for approximately over a week before charging again.

SMS is truly a disadvantage on this phone. Very very slow text recognition and some functions are ill positioned in the keys. Example: Imagine you can turn off dictionary so every time you have to disable it. Next for you to code "0" you have to go to the function change form letter to numbers. Absolutely ridiculous.

Camera performance probably is good during the time it was released but dont expect for quality that you can show off. Artificial light shooting usually results to grainy image.

Call quality is average and nothing really to rave about.

This thing is just a back-up phone for me now. Seldom used due to flaws mentioned.

I have the phone about 8 months and it is true that the sms fuction, well... sucks.
What do you want when you're going to send an sms? 1 (ONE) button with "new sms" and with this one the shortest way to begin writing an sms is to push 5 buttons.(not counting search contact) I have to say I want to write an sms 2 times, choose between -new sms-last sms-template-. And the textinput is slow! It could have been a superphone but sms...

I've used it for almost one and half year. And i like battery life, but when it come to messaging surely like hell! Very very very slow processor! and typing response is just hell on earth! Hoping Philips will release this kind of phone with better speed and better messaging, plus bluetooth, umts, video recording 3gp and mp4, 3.15 mp, quadband, better screen (256k is reasonable), mp3 player, radio.

For you people out there, i recomend this phone for bussiness purpose. The battery life is just one of a kind.

So far most men here complain about features, that are not the aim of this phone. This is a fine speaking device. Used shiny samsung before and tired of its' constant breakdowns during the middle of speech.
No better PHONEs than xenium. If you need games and stuff consider a smartphone instead.

Strange to see LED configurable, but not the external display, which shuts down a few seconds after the flip is closed...
Strange not to see bluetooth, but only infrared.
Also I failed to install Jimm (ICQ-like midlet). It said "not enough memory" while compiling.